Matt Zapotosky
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Senior Director of White House and Capitol Hill coverage @CNN. Formerly @washingtonpost. Ohio U grad. Dad. Detroit Lions/Washington Nats/Cleveland Cavaliers fan
Washington, DC
Joined March 2009
The next time a lawyer/FBI official/Deputy Attorney General tries to convince you that your conduct is *not* being investigated because you're not a target/subject, just remember...
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New: The Trump administration is working on day-after plans in the event Maduro is ousted from power, according to two senior administration officials and another source familiar with the discussions. The plans are being quietly drafted and closely held at the White House, the
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Months into a pressure campaign that has seen the US military move thousands of troops and a carrier strike group into the Caribbean and President Donald Trump issue repeated threats against Venezu...
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New: Big group of House centrists - Rs and Ds - will make a push for 2 year Obamacare subsidies plan tomorrow. Extending $$ but with reforms. GOP leadership not bought in but this group hopes to shake something loose before 12/31 when premiums will spike
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President Trump has pardoned a former top entertainment executive who was charged by his own Justice Department a few months ago and has previously criticized him, w @Sam_Waldenberg
https://t.co/01I5fbp90f
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President Donald Trump issued a “full and unconditional pardon” for Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke, who was indicted by the president’s own Justice Department earlier this year, according to a...
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For years, Trump ridiculed Biden for appearing to doze off in public. "Nobody that has true enthusiasm and belief in a subject will ever fall asleep!” Trump said. For the second time in less than a month now, Trump has apparently done the same thing. https://t.co/eawhJTN3PR
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At the start of a Cabinet meeting just after noon ET on Tuesday, President Donald Trump made his seemingly obligatory reference to “Sleepy Joe” Biden.
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The White House planned roll out a health plan it hadn’t previewed to most GOP lawmakers and that extended an ACA provision they deeply oppose… all during the short Thanksgiving week. It didn’t go great. The latest w/ @sarahnferris @Luhby:
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President Donald Trump hasn’t officially unveiled his new health care plan. But plenty in his party already oppose it.
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New reporting: President Trump was briefed this week on options for military operations inside Venezuela as he continues to mull a path forward in the country, four sources told CNN. With my colleagues @ZcohenCNN and @Kevinliptakcnn
https://t.co/2pJKtQ3Nem
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President Donald Trump was briefed this week on options for military operations inside Venezuela as he continues to mull a path forward in the country, four sources told CNN.
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10 thoughts on the shutdown. But, really, you don't have to reads these. there's a lot of takes out there. 1. Dems clearly lost on their main objectives: extending subsidies+ ending rescissions. Can't spin that 2. Dems run real risk of depressing a base that just began to think
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Read @scontorno and @owermohle on the unlikely capital of MAHA policy and debate: Palo Alto
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In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns...
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Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media @Kevinliptakcnn @Sam_Waldenberg
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Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise...
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MTG agrees with Trump that Rs are getting blamed more than Ds for the shutdown. But she sees the whole thing as a “you-know-what measuring contest” 👀 @kaitlancollins
https://t.co/gZ9EZXbA9r
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Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Kaitlan Collins that while the GOP is bearing most of the blame for the shutdown, the standoff has become “basically a you-know-what measuring contest.”
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As the government shutdown hits a record, @Kevinliptakcnn lays out how President Trump's handling of it has differed greatly from his first-term, particularly when it comes to his travel. Trump is set to go to Miami today. https://t.co/PpfH6YW4oy
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NEW: Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN The president was “immediately” angered by it, one of the sources
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President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources...
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President Trump urges GOP leaders to take unprecedented step of eliminating Senate filibuster to unilaterally end the government shutdown.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday urged congressional Republicans to unilaterally end the government shutdown by eliminating the Senate filibuster — urging them to take an unprecedented step that...
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Gold crown, golf clubs and a jet: Tracking Trump’s gifts from foreign leaders this year
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What to get the man who has everything, including his own Boeing 747 and a set of nuclear launch codes?
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With SNAP benefits expiring, Vance and WH signal contingency funds won’t be used to offer reprieve for millions Ds reject calls from AFGE to back clean CR Blumenthal: “When I talk to federal employees, they say to me: ‘Please reopen the government, but hang tough on health care’
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NEW: I reviewed a text chain provided by an acquaintance of Graham Platner where the person discussed with others Platner’s Nazi-like tattoo months before the story became public, undercutting claims Platner only recently learned of it. https://t.co/RBqrZawyGe
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A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.
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Mum’s the word from workers on East Wing demolition, including some who say they’ve signed NDAs @KitMaherCNN
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Construction workers in lime green vests, hoodies and hard hats who have spent the last several days clearing the White House’s East Wing departed through the Treasury grounds on their way out for...
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‘A growing cancer’: Despite JD Vance’s posture, some prominent figures on the right are warning not to ignore rising antisemitism and extremism in their ranks
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Vice President JD Vance last week presented the Republican Party and the conservative movement with a fork in the road. They could either denounce the increasing examples of racist, antisemitic and...
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Trump administration officials have privately discussed setting up a meeting between Trump & North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when Trump visits Asia next month, though many are skeptical that it will ultimately happen, sources familiar with the matter said Officials have not yet
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Trump administration officials have privately discussed setting up a meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when Trump visits Asia next month, though many are...
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“Even within Trump’s orbit, Miller’s forcefulness has surprised advisers …with some privately worrying that his militant language risks turning Americans against Trump...” @adamcancryn @priscialva @ZcohenCNN
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In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Departm...
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